I am Woman: Fly

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Hi everyone! Liesbeth here with a happy flying woman for our current challenge. 

I made it with a Infusions-background. I stamped the Robust Dancer with black StazOn ink and masked her. The leaves are stamped with the beautiful Large Tree Crown (CV) and two times the word Fly from Misc. Words. I bleached (pure bleach) the woman and finished the card with colour pencils.

Hope to see your creations too! :-)

Have a nice day!

LiesbethXX

CHALLENGE #139 - ROUND AND ROUND

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

 

Hello Portal Peeps.  
 

It's time for our new Challenge.
Our challenges are now fortnightly!  A new challenge starting the 1st and the 15th of every month, with chances to win Lost Coast dollars. We will be announcing winners on the 5th of the month, so do pop back and see who wowed the team and gets our snazzy blog badge and the coveted Lost Coast dollars.

Now for our new Challenge!

CHALLENGE #139

ROUND AND ROUND

We want to see circles or circular projects, or round things on your stamped makes.
Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  A small stamped sentiment in a sea of die cuts or digi images will not qualify to win the prize and you may be deleted!!!!  Bwahahhaaahaha.

Please remember we do have some Challenge Rules to follow so look them over to ensure your entries qualify to win this month's prize!

You are welcome to play in our Challenges using rubber stamp images from any company but if you use any of our Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps...we love it when you do...then your entry counts as two which doubles your chances of winning in our random prize drawing.

PRIZES

To ensure you all have a fabulous time playing in our Challenges this is how our Prize system works!
The more entries the better the Prize so tell all your friends to join the fun too!

1 - 4 Entries = one winner chosen by the team is awarded our Challenge Winner's Badge
5+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
10+ Entries = one randomly picked winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend at
Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda
and all winners get our snazzy Challenge Winner's Badge to proudly display on their blogs!

If you don't have a blog then no prob, you can still play in our challenges by sharing your projects from public photo sharing sites which includes our Facebook Company Pages for Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.  Please include our Challenge info and the link back to our challenge in your photo's description!  As long as the privacy setting for your photo is public you're good to go.  See, it's so easy to join the fun!  FYI, you can't link up projects shared in closed Facebook groups! 

Here's some inspiration from the team to get us started.  ENJOY!

Cathy used Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy, Coffee Gnome, Doodle Circles and Carmen's Veranda Small Tree Crown

Laurie used Lost Coast Designs Whimsical Flora, Whimsical Amelia and
Whimsical Ruthie

 

Liesbeth used various Lost Coast Designs Frida stamps and Daisy Flourish.

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!  
Submit your entries in the linky party below by 23.59 PST on the 14th and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so check back and join the fun.

Happy Stamping!
Gail
Challenge Host

Challenge #139 - Round and Round
March 1st -  14th Please read over out RULES to be sure your entries qualify you to win!
ALL rubber stamp companies are welcome.
Linky closes Monday, March 14th 23.59 PST.
All entries must be entered in our link up or added on our fb fan page if you are using our stamps.  See our RULES page for more info
 

 

Gnomes: reading Gnome

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Hi everyone, welcome again to our Anything goes with Gnomes' challenge! Today it's my (Liesbeth) turn. This reading little Gnome is so lovely! 💓 Grab your Gnomes and stamp along with us!

This is how I made this card: I stamped Carmen's Veranda Compass Square four times (using a stamp positioner) with different light inks on a piece of paper and sponged here and there with the same four colours. With black ink, I stamped the tree, (a first and a second print as you can see), the crown and the script at the bottom and the text.(ATC birds in trees, Tree crown, Pieces of Calligraphy, Travel Quotes) I stamped the Book Gnome on a seperate piece of cardstock, coloured it with Zig-markers and cut it out. I glued the Gnome onto the card and finished the card with gel pens and Zig-markers. I sponged the edges with black ink.

Liesbeth XX

Wood Challenge: *Magic*

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here!
There's still time for you to join our Wood Challenge till August 31st!

I hope to inspire you with this card. I made the wood grained background by wiping (direct to paper) my Distress Ink pad Vintage photo onto strips of paper of different widths). I sponged the edges of the strips, again with Vintage Photo and glued then on a card.  I stamped Large tree crown and ATC tekst set 1 also on the background. 

I stamped Ancient woman 4, added some colour and fussy cut her, then stamped the word, ripped and inked the edges.

Stamps I used: Large tree crown, Ancient woman 4, ATC tekst set 1, and Misc. Words.

Day 19 of 31 days of Halloween

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Cathy here with a zombie dog walker.
The zombie is still a good pet owner. He is walking his dog.
Stamped Used: Bandaid dog by Katzelcraft.
Tree crown

I started out by making a night sky background. I used Distress inks to make it and added white paint for the stars. Set that aside to dry.

 I stamped Bandaid dog by Katzelcraft on Copic friendly paper and colored him in. I then used a YG11 all over to give him a zombie look. Cut him out. I stamped a second time and colored just the collar and cut out so I could attach the string(leash)

 For the zombie I used Tim Holtz's new die and cut him out of some green paper. Then I used some green and brown Distress ink and dirtied him up.

Now that the background is dry I took the Tree crown and inked the top so I could have trees in the sky. Then I die cut a circle from gold cardstock and made that my moon. I also die cut some bats to add to it.

 Then I cut a piece from the same green cardstock that I cut the zombie and made a hill and some grass to have the zombie walking his dog on. I used a stencil on the grass but it needed more so I took that Tree crown stamp again and used a green ink and stamped it all over the ground. Insta grass.

I hope you like my zombie dog walker. Come join the fun for our 31 days of Halloween Challenge. 

You can join the Halloween Challenge here 

Or you can join the Cats and Dog Challenge here
Or you can enter both I hope you do.

Bookmarks

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Hello all. Cathy Here.

Well today I have made some bookmarks for your viewing pleasure.  I have made 3 in total for Lost Coast Designs new challenge MINI ME - smaller than a card. Well mine are longer than a card, but definitely smaller, so they still count...

To start out I did the backgrounds all the same. The first two I used Distress inks and the smooching technique. The last one I used Distress Oxide inks and the smooching technique.   

The one above I used pinks and oranges colors in inks on white cardstock. Then I stamped Katzelkraft Monsters all over the edges of the bookmark. Next I stamped the saying from Carmen's Veranda Currently Unsupervised, cut it down to just 2 words, and glued it to the bookmark. When that was done I backed it with some black cardstock. I did that to all 3 of my bookmarks. Then I laminated them.  

 So for this on I used blues and greens of the inks. Next I stamped a small butterfly from the Bugz set. I felt it still needed more so I grabbed my number border stamp and stamped that randomly on it.

Last one!  This time I used the Distress Oxide inks. For this one I used another Katzelkraft stamp that Lost Coast Designs is selling. It is called Hanging Branch Cat. I stamped it at the top of the bookmark. Next I stamped the tree crown on the top of the bookmark to it looks like trees and leaves.  Then I grabbed a saying sticker and added to the bottom. Lastly I added some stars with a stencil and regular distress ink. 

Come join Challenge #54 Mini Me 

Tree Crown ATC

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Hello Cathy here with a new challenge here for you. Pretty as a Picture is what it is called. . Photo Inspiration - be inspired by the colors, the subject, the shapes, just tell us what inspired your project

 I have made a ATC for this challenge.  What I inspired me in making this ATC is the color, the window frame and the twigs from the nest.
I took Distress Oxide ink in red and brown tones and I did the smooshing technique on my craft mat with them. Next I took  ATC Leaf Column Shrine and stamped it in black ink. Next I stamped  Small Tree Crown in the center of it. last I colored the crown with brown Copic markers and some green for the leafs on the crown.